Posts Tagged ‘Surprise Me!’
This is For Betsy Hall
Hope Hall, USA, 1999
The filmmaker made this memoir about her mother ’s struggles with an eating disorder, by using family photos, interviews, projected video and underwater footage. Not so much kinetic as moving.
Les Filles Follen
Tuixen Benet, Spain, 2009
Unabashedly low-tech, danced in a rehearsal studio, this is all one take. With high heels that could kill, these two zany cigarette girls clatter around in real time, and then in sped up footage. The message: GIVE US CIGARETTES – WE ARE PRETTY.
Of Human and Blob Body Fragments
Isabel Valverde, Portugal/USA, 2009
The Blob Dance Project experiments with modes of embodied experience and interaction within BlobMaker, a multimodal interactive application, and a power wall. This video is an experimentation combining blobs, body movement, and the fragmentation possibilities when using 12 projectors and computers.
Palissimo: Weddings & Beheadings
Jared Frank, USA, 2009
A video of excerpts from Palissimo’s psychosexual show, “Weddings & Beheadings”, Jared Frank boils the live performance down to a minute and a half.
UP WAKE
Natasha Tsakos, Switzerland/USA, 2007
This is a promotional video for UP WAKE, a solo performance created and developed by Natasha Tsakos. The performance takes place on a bare stage with a single actor, but a larger world is suggested through inventive uses of CGI and synchronized sound effects.
